Day 7, Cycle 1

Woody just finished taking the last of the pills for Cycle 1 of the drug study. Tomorrow is Day 8 of Cycle 1 and that means that we will head to Vanderbilt for the first of his weekly lab work and check-ups. Tomorrow he will also have an EKG. We will take back all the pill bottles in their caution bags.

Today has been a pretty laid-back day for both of us. We both went to Sunday School this morning. Woody taught the 8th grade boys class. Pretty much the rest of the day he has relaxed in his recliner reading and watching TV. He seems to feel better today...perhaps it is just knowing that he will have a respite from taking the volume of pills that he has had to take for the last week! He has three weeks off from taking the chemo drugs...but that doesn't mean that they stop working. The research nurse told us that it takes about 10 days for the drugs to start "messing" with his blood counts...making the white and/or red counts go down so that he might be more susceptible to germs.